WATCHMEN
by Zack Snyder
synopsis
Set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity... but who is watching the Watchmen?"
international title: | Watchmen |
original title: | Watchmen |
country: | United Kingdom, United States, Canada |
year: | 2009 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Zack Snyder |
film run: | 163' |
release date: | BE/FR 04/03/2009, CZ/DE/HU/NL/PT/SK 05/03/2009, AT/FI/IT/LV/NO/PL/RO/ES 06/03/2009, GR 12/03/2009, BG/EE/SE 13/03/2009, HR/SI 19/03/2009, DK 20/03/2009 |
screenplay: | David Hayter, Alex Tse |
cast: | Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Matt Frewer, Stephen McHattie |
cinematography by: | Larry Fong |
film editing: | William Hoy |
art director: | Alex McDowell |
costumes designer: | Michael Wilkinson |
music: | Tyler Bates |
producer: | Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Deborah Snyder |
production: | Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Lawrence Gordon Productions, Legendary Pictures (USA) |
distributor: | Paramount Pictures United Kingdom, Paramount (FR/DE/ES), Lusomundo (PT), Bontonfilm (CZ), Finnkino (FI), Universal Pictures (BE/IT/NL) |